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  • Top 150 Management and Leadership Blogs

    Saturday, April 10th, 2010 • Leadership

    Jurgen Appelo, author of the popular NOOP.NL blog, has compiled a list of the Top 150 Management and Leadership Blogs, ranked by their Google Page Rank, Bing hit count, Alexa Ranking, Technorati Authority, Twitter Grader, PostRank and FeedBurner counts (see his excellent How to Make a Top Blog... more...

  • Celebrate your Rock Stars

    Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 • Corporate Culture

    Every business has a few rock stars on staff, whether they're your craftiest coder, most accurate accountant, or best baker. We all know performance reviews don't really deliver performance, so how do you find ways to inspire them? Hint: it's not an Employee of the Month plaque on the wall. If... more...

  • Optimizing for Introverts

    Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 • Corporate Culture

    I did a Myers Briggs personality test a long time ago, though I can't remember the final outcome. I can say with some certainty that I was more at home on the Extrovert side of the Attitudes dichotomy than on the Introvert side. Turns out that Es like me have it easy. Penelope Trunk has a great... more...

  • The Benefits of Pissing People Off

    Monday, November 30th, 2009 • Corporate Culture

    Tim Ferriss, author of The Four Hour Workweek, has a great post up today about The Benefits of Pissing People Off. I had the privilege of having dinner with Tim a few years ago in San Francisco (along with my good friend Jason DeFillippo), and learned a huge amount about the nutritional supplement... more...

  • Gazing through my Johari Window

    Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 • Corporate Culture

    This is part two in the Johari Windows posts, covering the results of the experiment. You should start with Check Your Blind Spot: Rypple and the Johari Window to get the context for this second half. So! You're probably wondering how it all went down. Well let me tell you! It's no easy task... more...

  • A Feedback Routine for Everyone

    Friday, September 25th, 2009 • Feedback

    I read a great blog post by Chris Ferdinandi on the value of continuous communication in helping people improve: Ongoing communication around performance (a.k.a. helping your people become rockstars) is what being a manager is all about. Definitely! Based on my experience, one of the most... more...

  • Business Week Gives Performance Reviews Low Grades

    Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 • Performance Management

    You may have guessed that we're not huge fans of the old school performance review process: there's lots of value in doing reviews at the end of the year, but the 364 days in between leave people without anything to work from. It's always nice when experts agree with you, so it was with great... more...

  • What's Your 5 Runs?

    Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 • Corporate Culture

    [caption id="" align="alignright" width="194" caption="Nike+"][/caption] I've been thinking a lot about user engagement lately, which might be why Nike+ Experiment article in last month's Wired caught my attention. Although the article only briefly touches on the topic, there's a lot that can be... more...